Today's Google Trends: M.J. Weighed Eight Stones

Today's Google Trends: M.J. Weighed Eight Stones

If we are what we Google, then Google Hot Trends—an hourly rundown of search terms "that experience sudden surges in popularity"—is the Web's best cultural barometer. Here's a sampling of today's top searches. (Rankings on Hot Trends list current as of 11 a.m.)

No. 8: "Don Cornelius."
Google Trends today are full of searches relating to
Sunday's BET Awards
, which were retooled at the last minute as a Michael Jackson tribute.
Soul Train
creator Don Cornelius was just one of dozens of black entertainers who honored Jackson. Over the weekend, Cornelius told
Time
about the first time he saw Jackson perform in the mid-1960s: "He's only 4 ft. tall and you're looking at a small person who can do anything he wanted to do onstage—with his feet or his voice. To get to that level ... you're talking about James Brown as a performer. Michael was like that as a kid."

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No. 40:
"8 st 1 oz."
The results of Michael Jackson's autopsy were released today, and according to
reports
in the British press he was bald, needle-pricked and "severely emaciated," weighing just "
8 st 1 oz
." That's short for 8 stone 1 ounce, or about 112 pounds. Metric is the official system for measuring weight in England, but the stone (14 pounds), is commonly used to express body weight.